EIGHT-RAYED MULLET. 



Mngll octoradiatus, GUNTHEK; Cat. Br. M., vol. iii, p. 437, 



and Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, May, 1861, p. 3. 



THE proportions of the body of this species are much like 

 those of the last named. It has eight soft rays in the anal 

 fin; the eyelid not adipose; upper lip thin, but in the void 

 space on the throat it differs from the Long-finned Mullet in 

 having it lengthened out to a space between the interopercula, 

 but it agrees with that fish in having twenty-five scales between 

 the snout and the spinous dorsal. It differs from it again in 

 the form of the lower jaw. The colour of the back greenish; 

 sides and belly silvery, with darker stripes along the sides. 

 Two examples only have been noticed, one of which was in 

 Mr. YarrelPs collection, who mistook it for M. capito. It does 

 not appear to have been known in any other country, or to 

 have been noticed by any other observer, 



